Litigation boutique PCB Byrne will pay for Mr Justice Pelling KC’s flights to Dubai and his accommodation for a week to hear witness statements in the £1bn battle brought by Russian political exile Alexander Gorbachev against former Russian senator Andrey Guriev. According to the latest judgment in the case, a joint application was made by […]
Two energy partners from EY Law are set to join a US firm’s London office. The Lawyer understands that Charles Morrison and Dimitri Papaefstatiou are leaving for Hunton Andrews Kurth after three years at the Big Four firm. Morrison was a solicitor for 15 years at DLA Piper before joining EY Law as partner in […]
After the excitement of new technologies such as NFTs, AI, and 5G comes the slow and arduous legal work of finding out who owns what and who’s getting paid; this is where Bird & Bird’s intellectual property team steps in. The market: Standard-essential patents (SEPs) are the bread and butter of the IP market, setting technical […]
The English Court has ordered Russian state-controlled pipeline operator Transneft to drop its case in Moscow that sought to prevent jailed businessman Ziyavudin Magomedov from bringing a $13.8bn claim in England against 22 defendants. In December 2022, Magomedov was sentenced to 19 years in jail for embezzlement alongside his brother, having already spent more than four […]
Clifford Chance’s private equity team is shoring up its position by doubling down on key client relationships and betting on deep global ties after the exit of partner Chris Sullivan.
A structured finance team is moving to Allen & Overy, soon to be A&O Shearman, from Milbank’s London office. Partner John Goldfinch is leading the move to the magic circle firm. He focuses on CLOs and related markets, with his arrival expanding A&O’s capabilities in acting for private capital clients. He will be joined by […]
Welcome to this week’s edition of The Hearing, your weekly insider’s guide to the UK litigation market. The vista of climate change litigation is back on the horizon after a blunt intervention by a former Supreme Court justice criticised the High Court this week. We also look at how RPC’s media team is building on […]
Latham & Watkins and Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton were called on by legacy client Whirlpool Corporation to handle a year-long transaction and CMA investigation on the company’s combination with Turkish appliance business Arçelik. After the deal’s announcement in January 2023, a merger inquiry was launched by the CMA to review potential competition concerns. Following […]
Kirkland leads in the battle of the smartphones US-based smartphone manufacturer Motorola filed a fresh patents claim against Swedish telecoms company Ericsson last Monday (12 February) as mobile phone disputes continue to dominate the patents space. Motorola is joined as a claimant by its parent company Lenovo, which have sought representation from Kirkland & Ellis. […]
Collective action firm Pogust Goodhead has introduced a “synthetic equity programme” this month that could see partners and associates paid millions over the coming few years. The firm, which launched in 2018, holds a model that shares profits between global managing partner Tom Goodhead and chairman Harris Pogust, who is based in the US. The […]
Lawyers at Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer will have to opt for lower-class travel options, according to the firm’s revised travel policy implemented in 2023. The move comes as part of the magic circle firm’s commitment to a 37 per cent reduction in business travel carbon emissions by 2027. The revised policy emphasises the need for efficiency […]
A debarred defendant has offered to fund the ex-CEO of London Capital & Finance (LCF) Michael Thomson in one of The Lawyer’s Top 20 cases of 2024 as various asset freezing orders have left him struggling to pay his legal costs. The suit is between LCF and eight defendants allegedly involved in a “Ponzi scheme”, […]